well shit

I don't know many more calls
how many old
helpless ladies
and men
I can help before insanity
ensues

more empty faces sent to the
slaughter as another
phone rings,
another transfer
another night
gone right
sometimes terribly wrong

(the holidays are always the worst)

but the phones still ring and
the people still call and I'm
often left with this pining for the first
word

they tell us the economy has gone bad,
but how often does the average american really understand what's
going on?

this overtime is killing me,
but they say their is a bigger gain on the paycheck.